Biology:Propleopus
Propleopus is an extinct genus of marsupials. The genus contains three species: P. chillagoensis from the Plio-Pleistocene, and P. oscillans and P. wellingtonensis from the Pleistocene.[1]
Discovery and naming
The type species Propleopus oscillans was first named under the genus Triclis by Charles Walter De Vis in 1888.[2] Because the German entomologist Hermann Loew had already named the genus Triclis for a robber fly in 1851, Albert Heber Longman named a replacement name Propleopus in 1924, combining the prefix pró (πρό, 'before') with pleopus, the latter in reference to the junior synonym of Hypsiprymnodon moschatus: Pleopus nudicaudatus named by Richard Owen in 1877.[3] In 1978 and 1985, Archer and colleagues named two more species, P. chillagoensis and P. wellingtonensis, and provided a taxonomic revision of the genus.[4]
Description
In contrast to most other kangaroos, and similar to their small extant relative, the musky rat-kangaroo, they were probably omnivorous and quadrupedal.[5] Propleopus is estimated to have weighed around 35.5–47.1 kilograms (78–104 lb).[6]
References
- ↑ Wroe, S. (1996). "An Investigation of Phylogeny in the Giant Extinct Rat Kangaroo Ekaltadeta (Propleopinae, Potoroidae, Marsupialia)". Journal of Paleontology 70 (4): 681–690. doi:10.1017/S0022336000023635. ISSN 0022-3360. Bibcode: 1996JPal...70..681W.
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<ref>tag; no text was provided for refs namedLongman1924 - ↑ Archer, M.; Flannery, T. (1985). "Revision of the Extinct Gigantic Rat Kangaroos (Potoroidae: Marsupialia), with Description of a New Miocene Genus and Species and a New Pleistocene Species of Propleopus". Journal of Paleontology 59 (6): 1331–1349. ISSN 0022-3360.
- ↑ Ride, W.D.L.; Pridmore, P.A.; Barwick, R.E.; Wells, R.T.; Heady, R.D. (1997). "Towards a Biology of Propleopus oscillans (Marsupialia: Propleopinae, Hypsiprymnodontidae)". Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 117: 243–326. https://zenodo.org/records/16254301.
- ↑ Wroe, S.; Argot, C.; Dickman, C (2004). "On the rarity of big fierce carnivores and primacy of isolation and area: tracking large mammalian carnivore diversity on two isolated continents". Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 271 (1544): 1203–1211. doi:10.1098/rspb.2004.2694.
- John A. Long et al.: Prehistoric Mammals of Australia and New Guinea. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore 2003, ISBN 0-8018-7223-5.
- "Propleopus (Genus)". ZipcodeZoo.com. Archived from the original on 2012-01-26. https://web.archive.org/web/20120126131412/http://zipcodezoo.com/Key/Animalia/Propleopus_Genus.asp.
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